sackful in the PONS Dictionary

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It might have had retirees rushing to buy them by the sackful.
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She sends him off for a sackful of gold, and then she says she must bank the fire.
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Who could ever have imagined he would lose his life over a sackful of grit?
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Then he dumps a sackful of wood into it, locks down the lid to keep the air out, and fires the beast up.
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I'm not the one anxiously awaiting delivery of a sackful of toys and perhaps a random orange.
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Moments after police had filled a lorry full of growing equipment, a squatter was seen attempting to steal a sackful before two police officers gave chase.
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An amateur mycologist kept heading into the woods in search of mushrooms and soon had a sackful.
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Today she is in charge of sugar, stirring a sackful with her hand to loosen the grains before spooning precise portions into waiting plastic bags.
www.unhcr.org
They then sold sackfuls of beans and also started a caf selling good value wholefoods for students.
en.wikipedia.org
I see people dump sackfuls of rice and grains.
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